Nicolae Timofti

Timofti was born to Elena (born 1927) and Vasile Timofti in Ciutulești, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union,{{cite web|url=http://www.mediafax.ro/externe/criza-din-r-moldova-s-ar-putea-incheia-vineri-cu-alegerea-lui-nicolae-timofti-la-presedintie-9402784|title=Criza din R. Moldova s-ar putea încheia vineri cu alegerea lui Nicolae Timofti la preşedinţie|date=15 March 2012|language=ro|work=Mediafax|access-date=16 March 2012}} and has four siblings.{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}} At the beginning of 1949, his family moved to Florești. On 6 July 1949, his paternal grandfather Tudor Timofti was deported by Soviet authorities to the Amur region, where he died in 1953.{{cite web|url=http://www.timpul.md/articol/nicolae-timofti-a-fost-votat-preedinte-al-r--moldova---16-martie-zi-istorica-32311.html|title=Nicolae Timofti a fost votat Presidente al R. Moldova|work=Timpul|date=16 March 2012|access-date=21 March 2012}} Timofti graduated from the law school of Moldova State University in 1972.

From 1964 to 1965 he was a worker in the regional road department of Floresti. Then, until 1967, Timofti worked as a mechanic and motorist. After graduation, Timofti spent two years in the Soviet Army before beginning his career as a judge in 1976, when he worked as a consultant at the Ministry of Justice of the Moldavian SSR. For ten years from 1980–1990, he was a judge of the Supreme Court of the Moldavian SSR. In April 2013, it was found out, that he was the judge who in January 1987 found the pro-Romanian dissident Gheorghe David guilty of "systematic propaganda, in writing and orally, of ideas of a nationalist character, aiming to provoke national enmity towards persons of Russian nationality, to discredit the national Leninist policy of the CPSU", In an open letter published on 16 April of that year, Timofti said "that he regrets that he was put in a situation to apply an inhumane law and explained that, as a judge, he was obliged to apply the law."{{Cite web |date=2013-04-14 |title=Preşedintele Nicolae Timofti a recunoscut implicarea sa în condamnarea disidentului Gheorghe David |url=https://adevarul.ro/stiri-externe/republica-moldova/presedintele-nicolae-timofti-a-recunoscut-1427905.html |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=adevarul.ro |language=ro}}

"He is a person who was with us when we started reforms in the 1990s," Mihai Ghimpu said. In 2005, Timofti was appointed to the Higher Judicial Chamber and, in 2011, he was named chairman of the Supreme Council of Magistrates.

After his election by parliament, Timofti identified Moldova's European orientation as a priority, as it had been the country's policy during the previous years; he stated that this policy "must continue"Washington Post, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120317062102/http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/moldova-elects-pro-european-judge-timofti-as-president-ending-3-years-of-political-deadlock/2012/03/16/gIQAl3s8FS_story.html Moldova elects pro-European judge Timofti as president, ending 3 years of political deadlock] and that his country "has no other future than a European future". Former acting president and speaker of the Parliament of Moldova Mihai Ghimpu called Timofti "...a progressive man, [which] means a lot for the Republic of Moldova."

Timofti is married to the lawyer Margareta Timofti and they have three sons: Alexei (born 1977) works as a lawyer for the World Bank in Washington, Nicolae (Nicu) (born 1980) is a sports journalist in Chișinău, and Ștefan (born 1989) studies economics in Chișinău.{{cite web|url=http://www.rferl.org/content/who_is_moldovas_new_president/24518350.html|title=Profile: Who Is Moldova's New President-Elect? |work=Radio Free Europe|date=17 March 2012|access-date=21 March 2012}}

• Order of Work Glory[https://forum.md/ru/894490/1 Николай Тимофти больше не судья ВСП]
• Honorary Title "Om emerit"
• Order of the Republic of Serbia (Serbia, 2013){{Cite web|url=http://www.predsednik.rs/node/565|title=Укази о одликовањима|access-date=27 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301055632/http://www.predsednik.rs/node/565|archive-date=1 March 2013 |url-status=dead }}
• Order of the Star of Romania (Romania, 2016){{cite web|title=Тимофти награжден Орденом "Звезда Румынии"|url=http://pan.md/politika/timofti-nagrajden-ordenom-zvezda-rumyinii-|date=14 December 2016|publisher=Панорама|access-date=7 January 2017}}
• Order of Stara Planina (Bulgaria, 2016)[http://newsmaker.md/rus/novosti/rosen-plevneliev-bolgariya-podderzhit-moldovu-na-puti-evrointegratsii-28391 Росен Плевнелиев: Болгария поддержит Молдову на пути евроинтеграции]

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• [https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCIXYOBuejyv3il1g8Gd0tHw Official Youtube channel of Nicolae Timofti]
• [http://www.rferl.org/content/who_is_moldovas_new_president/24518350.html Profile: Who Is Moldova's New President-Elect?]
• [http://unimedia.info/tag/timofti-nicolae News in Moldova about Nicolae Timofti] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108084113/http://unimedia.info/tag/timofti-nicolae |date=8 January 2014 }}
• [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cQXBD9LLDXE Timofti's inauguration in 2012]
• [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KKpGv-5w2yw&list=WL&index=86&t=0s Timofti with] Giorgi Margvelashvili in 2014
• [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7q7UIbLq8&list=WL&index=85&t=1s Timofti with] Patriarch Kirill of Moscow in 2013

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